The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-17
FACTS AND FANCIES.

Florida, served private in the confederate
army. All the officers have been elected.
IT has been rumored that the President has
been buying suburban property near Washing G.
ton for speculative purposes prominent con-
tractor says that he has been asked to send in
estimates for the construction of house a
large tract of land owned by the President near
Oak View, and that Mr.. Clevelands purpose is
to sell the new building as soon as it is com
pleted.
THE hard cheek of the Canadian mechanics of
Windsor Ontario, who earn their money across
the river in Detroit and spend it in their own
country, is more than matched by some residents
at Fort Erie. which is just across the Niagara
river from Buffalo These residents of the Do
minion actually had the audacity. few years
ago. to send their children to the Buffalo public
schools.
THE shrewdest tramp of the times has just
turned up in New York State A ragged, lame
and dirty fellow visited the stores il succession
and begged a cake of soap. The purpose was SO
apparent that he was rarely refused. After
putting in a day solid at this he held auction
at night and disposed of his days plumber, which
was large The result was neat sum, enough
to keep him in luxuries for some time.
PROF. CARL MEYER. who made a balloon ascen
sion at Erie the other day. attained altitude
Inconvenience whatever. At that height he
says My pulse stood at seventyt two and my
respiration was twenty minute. or about twice
faster than ordinary but felt first-rate and the
air seemed oracing and exhiarating. The Their
mometer regis tered sixtytwo degrees"
JAMES III. MACDONALD, the new Lieutenant
governor of Michigan, has an income of $40 600
year on an investment which cost him less than
$3.50. When Captain Moore discovered the Colby
mine in the great Gogebic iron range he sold
third interest to Macdonald for a few dollars.
The land is worked by a company which
pays a royalty of forty cents a ton. The royalty
for the present year amounts to $l20. 000 third
of which goes to Lieutenant-governor Mac
donald.
asked to send an organ to suit pianoforte in
neighboring town whore concert was to take
place. They discovered that telephone existed
in the room where the piano Forthwith
they asked that one of the notes of the piano
should be struck. When this was done the
sound could be distinctly heard in their ware
rooms. and by gradually reducing the pitch pipe
the tones of both instruments were made TO cor
respond
DHULEEP SINGH who is endeavoring to create
a revolution among the Indian princes against
the British government, is short, dark
plexio ned man. with Asiatic features. He
Christian and married an Egyptian girl from one
of the mission schools in Cairo. He is a descend
ant of Rungeet Singh, one of the most remark
able men in Indian history. Like his ancestor,
Dhuleep Singh is as able as be Is dangerous. He
believes that the Indians will absorb the English
and that the island of Great Britain will be but
dependency of India.
JABEz HALL, an aged and reputable planter
living near Marians Ark, advertised for a wife,
and the answers were so numerous that he was
at a loss how to choose. His gigantic intellect
came to his rescue, however. He gave each APP
plicsnt number and, writing the numbers on
separate cards, put them in box and shook
them up WELL Then he blndfolded his little
grandchid and had her draw card from the
box. He is now corresponding with the lady to
whom the card had been allotted, and it is prob
able that wedding will result.
THE drum major at West Point is a symphony
in color: Not Solomon in all his glory was
rayed like one of these. His simplest ornament
is the nineteen rows of buttons trimming his
coat-tail. The rest of him il laced, frogged,
zoned, embroidered and mottled with gold; he
has four giant pumes nodding on high, and four
yards of flaeree blazing on his legs; his coat is
tangle of glitter. his arms are paragons of bur-
nish and sheen, his belt is as the stars of frost
land, and the towering head of him is furred,
and starred. and spangled to the binding of the
sons of men.
DR. WILLIAM SMALLEY the German physician
and journalist who died the other day at Phila-
delpbia, was the orgs nicer in 1910 of the great
celebration in that city of the the four hundredth
anniversary of the invention of printing. On
that occasion the Germans of Philadelphia pre-
sented him fine silk banner, to be returned
to them by his descendants at the nextcentenary,
in 1910. The Smalley family is a numerous one
and will doubtless fulfill the agreement. DIR.
Smalley also founded the prosperous town known
Egg Harbor City, IN Atlantic county. New
Jersey, and the town of Hermann, Mo-, with
German colonies
BEER" said Bismarck. not long ago in the
Reichstag, lis, comparatively speaking, the bev-
erage of n welto-do class; but spirit is the drink
of the famous poor man. and spirit is thus
drink which the 1aborer cannot always dispense
with. Beer makes one lazy instead of exciting
the nerves 1t has, moreover a drawback from
the economic sIanu polnt-lG is a We-klller.
With us Germans, perhaps nothing kills time so
much as beer drinking. Spirit has in way
this effect, and Il You let the workingman choose
between wine, beer and spirit, he will reject
wine I have found that the laborer.
when he found his work hard refreshed himself
with Bavarian beer. The poor man needs spirit,
certainly to a moderate extent, but still small
quantity daily for nourishment."
AN early friend of the Hon. Allen G. Thur
recalls that the Ohio statesmans father,
Pleasant Thurman. was carpenter of shift:ess
habits, but of religious turn of mind. Now
and then he preached, and in old-fashioned
Methodist ''reyivals7 he q great shouter.
Allen was a slender, tow-headed boy, pale and
delicate and quiet in habits He was not noted
for brilliancy but was careful and industrious.
Before he admitted to the bar he
saddler, and while working at that trade he met
a Miss Macarthur, daughter of man of wealth
and social rank. He asked the privilege of es-
corting her home from the gathering where they
first met, but she rather haughtily refused him,
not wishing to associate with "a mere mechanic"
But she afterward changed her mind and became
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